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Old Oct 1, 2004 | 08:35 PM
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can anyone tell me what the symptoms of a missing engine are? when i floor my truck it revs then its like the engine cuts out for a second then resumes reving rince and repeat. during the cut out or miss i guess the truck shakes pretty violently. at least its very very noticable. i tried my grandads 91 f150 5.8 like mine and reved his and his just revs nice and smooth. nothing like what mine does. is my truck missing on a cylinder?
 
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Could be a couple things. First thing I would do is a tune-up, including wires, dist. cap, rotor, spark plugs, filters, and PCV valve.
 
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Old Oct 2, 2004 | 03:09 PM
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just had sparkplugs replaced. might need to luck into getting the wires etc done.
 
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might look in to making sure all the wires are conected right ??
 
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If wires are connected properly. Inspect the boots on the sparkplug end of the wires. I had some that had gotten rather gooey. I would do what andym suggested at the least. Mine ran about 200 percent better just by doing these things.
 
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Old Oct 4, 2004 | 08:17 PM
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it was doing it before the replacment of the plugs though.
 
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Old Oct 4, 2004 | 08:34 PM
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Ussally when you have a missing engine the front of the truck sits higher
 
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So if you rake the front end the miss will go away.
SERIOUSLY THOUGH, When you had the plugs replaced were all the other things andym suggested done also. Wires,rotor,distributor cap,etc.
 
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do i understand you right? does it quit like you shut the engine off and then back on? if so the fuel filter is probally plugged up
 
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